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Results: 45 Studies on Personal, Consumer (of 54 total)

Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much — or Not Enough?

School and Residential Neighborhood Food Environment and Diet Among California Youth

Market Structure, Competition from Assisted Living Facilities and Quality in the Nursing Home Industry

Health Care as a “Market Good”? Appendicitis as a Case Study

Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?

Pew Research: Gender Reversal on Career Aspirations

Does Living in a Subprime Neighborhood Affect the Probability of Default?

Individual, Family and Neighborhood Characteristics and Children’s Food Insecurity

Endocrine Disruptors and Asthma-Associated Chemicals in Consumer Products

Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

Balancing Work and Family After Childbirth: A Longitudinal Analysis

Confidence in Banks, Financial Institutions and Wall Street, 1971-2011

Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior

Online Display Advertising: Targeting and Obtrusiveness

Women in the Labor Force: A Databook

Male and Female Pathways through Four-Year Colleges: Disruption and Sex Stratification in Higher Education

Women See Value and Benefits of College; Men Lag on Both Fronts

What Can We Learn From Analyzing Historical Data on Social Security Entitlements?

Divorce and Women’s Loss of Health Insurance

Effects of College Educational Debt on Graduate School Attendance and Early Career and Lifestyle Choices

Federal Student Loans: Patterns in Tuition, Enrollment and Federal Stafford Loan Borrowing Up to the 2007-08 Loan Limit Increase

Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector

Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-being

Private Equity and Employment

Trends in U.S. Family Income Mobility, 1969–2006

In a Down Economy, Fewer Births

Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937

Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2010: Consumer Income

Trends in the Distribution of House Income Between 1979 and 2007

Possible Effects of the “Buffett Rule” and Higher Taxes on the Wealthy

Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking up from the American Dream

Who Never Receives Social Security Benefits?

Census Bureau Graphic: Recession and Median Income

U.S. Census Report: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance

If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy, Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right

Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment

Education and the Reproduction of Economic Inequality in the U.S.

Post-Foreclosure Experience of U.S. Households

Bundle of Joy: Does Parenting Really Make Us Miserable?

Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Among Whites, Blacks and Hispanics

Unions, Norms, and the Rise in American Wage Inequality

USDA Report: Expenditures on Children by Families, 2010

Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications

Cracking the Glass Cages? Workplaces and Inequality

Health Reform and Medical Bankruptcy in Massachusetts

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